and you're still in college, right? Correct me if unso.
You've been through quite a bit to exude that kind of wisdom. I 'spect it.
When i was your age, i didn't know shiit breigh. Growing up so late, i didn't understand the intricacies of dating. I was like a flower finally sprouting its petals in August - i was a late bloomer.
Though it's never too late, you'd rather get that shiit out of your system early to move on to bigger projects in life. I'm just now focusing on my life and career, at the tender age of 30 (how i portray that to the world is

but the way i truly feel inside is

).
But like a Playa album...

to you.
The ratchet screen name doesn't correlate with your posting. For you to recognize this much, i can just say that keep doing you.
You say that you aren't totally attracted to her (something to that extent)... but your actions say different. I think your ties to her could be more emotional than anything else but there's NOTHING wrong with that at all. You admire her but let her have the space necessary to do what she as a woman (especially at her age) should do without restraint.
"If you love something let it go. If it comes back, than it was meant to be." - Earl Simmons circa 1998 (courtesy of Island Def Jam).
Other than that, you set man. Your approach, now that i read it all, seems like the best plan.
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Enjoy it while you had it. I was single throughout my entire college career (that's 7 years for a slacker, b. I was the colored version of Van Wilder. Just less wilder).
But during that time, i always yearned to have somebody love me but my efforts were nil successful; always stared from the sidelines with envy, wondering when a shooting star would bring me some kind of romantic luck.
Now i'll never know what its like to walk a lady friend to her classroom. Or meet up after a class to grab something to eat. Holding hands to the library only to be the noisiest people in the room. Making out after a pep rally Or skipping class just to take a stroll on the campus mall to kick leaves where the bricks be. Shiits weak.
*sighs*
This shiit i have as an adult isn't the same cuz i feel like i missed out on love during my most crucial years of early adulthood development. (Don't tell anybody this, but i didn't even have a boo in highschool. What's the feeling like when you had to sneak out of your girls room cuz her parents came home earlier than anticipated? I don't know that kind of danger/urgency and i never will

).
If it wasn't for my sense of humor and unorthodox way i view life, being optimistic and stay dreaming, who knows where i'd be right now.
14 Bricks, i live vicariously in retro-vision through your experiences.
Now i know what Michael Jackson feels like when he axes,
"Have you seented my child hooooood???!?!?!!"
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